{"id":1892,"date":"2019-11-25T08:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:44:50","slug":"archer-fourth-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/25\/archer-fourth-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Archer-Fourth Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Archer covers an interesting relationship between the media and politicians. This relationship has always been interesting to me. It is as if the media sometimes plays the devil&#8217;s advocate. They push and poke at politicians to make quick decisions. This many times results in a frustrated politician. However, after reading this article I began to realize that the media is essential.<\/p>\n<p>In the United Sates today politics are very polarized. Although the media contributes to this, the information is more important. The media having a love\/hate relationship with politicians is essential to the people of the US. If it were not for the media, we would not be able to say&#8230;determine who the best candidate is for a position. The aggressive media can sometimes be the best as it forces politicians to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Archer covers an interesting relationship between the media and politicians. This relationship has always been interesting to me. It is as if the media&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/25\/archer-fourth-estate\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archer-Fourth Estate<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}